1. Francis Allotey had his primary education at St John the Baptist Catholic School in Saltpond and was among the pioneer batch of Ghana National College when the school was founded in July 1948 by Kwame Nkrumah.
20 Facts About Francis Allotey
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Francis Allotey held master's and doctorate degrees from Princeton University, awarded in 1966 and earlier the Diploma of Imperial College, obtained in 1960.
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Francis Allotey was tutored by the Pakistani Nobel prize-winning physicist Abdus Salam as an undergraduate at Imperial College.
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Francis Allotey was known for the "Allotey Formalism" which arose from his work on soft X-ray spectroscopy.
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Francis Allotey was the 1973 recipient of the UK Prince Philip Golden Award for his work in this area.
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Francis Allotey was the founding director of the KNUST Computer Centre before he assumed his position as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the university.
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Francis Allotey was the President of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of a number of international scientific organizations including the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Scientific Council since 1996.
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Francis Allotey was the President of the Ghana Institute of Physics and the founding President of the African Physical Society.
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Francis Allotey was instrumental in getting Ghana to join the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, making it one of the first few African countries to join the Union.
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Francis Allotey collaborated with the IUPAP and ICTP to encourage physics education in developing countries through workshops and conferences in order to create awareness on the continent.
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Francis Allotey was the Chairman of Board of Trustees of the Accra Institute of Technology, the President of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Ghana.
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Francis Allotey was an honorary fellow of the Institute of Physics.
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Francis Allotey was an honorary Fellow of the Nigerian Mathematical Society among others.
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Francis Allotey consulted for many international institutions such as the UNESCO, IAEA and UNIDO.
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Francis Allotey was the Vice president, 7th General Assembly of Intergovernmental Bureau of Informatics.
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Francis Allotey was instrumental in the advancement of computer education in Africa and worked closely with organisations such as the IBM International and the International Federation for Information Processing.
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Francis Allotey helped establish the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Ghana in 2012.
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Francis Allotey first married Edoris Enid Chandler from Barbados, whom he met while they were both studying in London.
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Francis Allotey died of natural causes on 2 November 2017.
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Francis Allotey's body was interred in his hometown, Saltpond, Central Region.